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Exhibitions Tagged #self portrait

NYC Alphabets

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Inspired by artist Wendy Ewald’s American Alphabets series, students at Harvest Collegiate High School explored language, identity, and culture through cyanotype self-portraits connected to a specific word.

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Speaking Portraits

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Speaking Portraits elevate our experiences, reveal hidden truths, and inform the viewer about what is most meaningful to us.

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syzygy, the vision

East River Esplanade (96th Street)
 archive : 2021

In this self-portrait series entitled syzygy, the vision, Flash is observing the straight-line configuration of our pasts, presents, and futures. This multi-dimensional contemplation considers vast dimensions of intersectional disadvantages, cultural conflicts, and unsettling legacies.

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The People That Are Within These Frames: A Community Offers Self-Portraits

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
 archive : 2021

The Bronx Documentary Center’s both senior and junior photo leagues were asked by the New York Times to make self-portraits; how they defined self-portrait was up to them. Their resulting images are an insight into who they are and what they’ve reflected on at home during the time of COVID-19.

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Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America

Brooklyn Bridge Park – New Dock Street
 archive : 2020

In early June, The New York Times asked more than two dozen Black photographers to create self-portraits, whatever that phrase meant to them. This collection of those photos presents an intimate perspective from artists who are motivated by their own reality.

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Esta Soy Yo, A Retrospective of Las Fotos Project’s Teen Self Portraits

Annenberg Space for Photography
 archive : Photoville LA

Esta Soy Yo is a landmark retrospective of Las Fotos Project’s youth self-portraits created over the course of eight years, reflecting each girls’ individuality and photographic creativity.

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#selfie

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2018

“#selfie” examines how image sharing and the Internet have changed the role of photography in the digital age. The process of creating and disseminating imagery has fundamentally changed in the new context provided by digital photography, smartphones and more recently the ‘selfie’.

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Room

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

“Room” is a series of portraits, self-portraits and letters, exploring the passage from girlhood to womanhood.

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Me and My Selfie

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2016

It’s fascinating to watch how people present themselves in the digital world of social media. I specifically find teenagers intriguing to observe.

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For Tropical Girls Who Have Considered Ethnogenesis When the Native Sun is Remote

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

Using 19th century ethnographic photographs as a point of departure, “For Tropical Girls Who Have Considered Ethnogenesis When the Native Sun is Remote” presents fantastical self portraits that question identity constructs and the psychological implications of iconography.

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Events and Sessions Tagged #self portrait

Oct 22021

Keeping It Real: Capturing Life Today

Gain insight into how you can create compelling, realistic images taken from your own life and experiences.

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Sep 182021

The Photographer’s Playdate With Aperture: “Little Me”

Join Aperture for a Photographer’s Playdate with artists Alice Proujansky and Angélica Dass, as they explore with participants the themes of self-portraiture and identity through two photo activities.

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Sep 182021

The Photographer’s Playdate With Aperture: “The Colors We Share”

Join Aperture for a Photographer’s Playdate with artists Alice Proujansky and Angélica Dass, as they explore with participants the themes of self-portraiture and identity through two photo activities.

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Oct 22020

An Evening with The New York Times

New York Times photographers and editors will share highlights from their coverage of some of the year’s most visually compelling stories. Some of the photographers and editors who created Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America will discuss their work.

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Apr 272019

Esta Soy Yo — This Is Me: A Self Portraits Workshop

Las Fotos Project’s teen photographers welcome you to bring your full self and join this interactive self-portrait making workshop.

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Sep 142018

The Geometry of Death and Re-Birth

X-Posure intern photographers present their second photo project, “The Geometry of Death and Re-Birth”. Each photographer explores their diverse and intersecting identities as an act of self-representation and advocacy.

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Sep 162017

JustArts: Beyond the Simple Selfie

Students from the Red Hook Community Justice Center and the Brownsville Community Justice Center’s Summer Photography Program share what they’ve learned about controlling their own visual narratives and going beyond the simple selfie.

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